St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-01-22

its timbers and so many mock terrors have
| threatened to dash it to pieces. AS soon as
| the earth is completed God will divide it uE
among the good. The reason He does not
| divide it now is because it is not done. A
kind father will not divide an apple among
his children until it is ripe. In fulfllment
of the New Testament premise, "The meek
shall inherit the EARTH" and the promise OF
the Old Testament, HE shall divide the
spoil with the strong" the world will be
apportioned to those worthy to possess it.
| 1t is not so now. In this country, capa-
BILE Of holding, feeding, clothing and shelter.
ing 1900 100000 people, and where we have
only 100000 inhabitants, we have 2,000,.
600 that are unable to get honest work and
with their families, an aggregation OF
10000, 900 that are on the verge of starva-
ton. Something wrong, most certainly.
In some way there will be new appor-
tionment. Many Of the millionaire estates
will crack to pieces on the designations OF
grandchildren, and then dissolve into
| the possession Of the masses who now
have an insufficiency.
| What you Say, will become Of the ez-
| pensive and elaborate buildings now de-
voted to debaslng amusements? They will
become schools, art galleries, museums,
! y i
already getting disguised with these
| arnusements, and no wonder. What an
| Importation of unclean theatrical stuff we
have had within the last few years brought
| to our shores! And professors of religion
patronizing such things! Having sold out
to the devil why don't you deliver the
goods and 60 over to him publicly, body,
mind and SOUL and withdraw your name
from Christian churches and say: know
all the world by these presents that I am
| patron of uncleanness and child Of
hell" Sworn to be the Lords, you are
| perjurers.
But at last the tide has turned, and the
despisers of purity overdid the matter. A
foreign actress of base morals arrived in
tending to make the tour of the States, but
the remaining decency of our cities rose up
and Cancelled the contracts, and drove her
back from our American stage-a woman
tit for neither continent In the name of
Almighty God l take these denominations by
the throat. If you think these offenses are
to go on forever, you do not know who the
Lord is. God will not wait for the day of
Judgment. All these palaces of sin will
become palace of Righteousness. They
Will come into the possession of those
strong for virtue and strong for God. He
shall divide the spoil with the strong"
China and Africa, the two richest por-
tons of the earth by reason of metals and
rare woods and inexhaus.ible productive
ness, are not yet divide! up among the
good because they are not ready to be di-
vided. Wait until the doors that Living
stone opened in Africa shall be entered,
and Bishop Taylor with his band of self
supporting missionaries have done their
work. and the Ashantees and Senegambi-
ans shall know Christ as well as you know
Him, and there shall be on the banks of
the Nile and the Niger higher civilization
than is now to be found on the banks of
the Hudson, then Christ will divide up the
continent among His friends.
Wait until China, which is half as large
as all Europe, shall have developed her ca
pacitles for rice, tea and sugar among edi-
bles; and her amethyst, and sapphire, and
topaz, and opal, and jaspar, and porhyry
among precious stones; and her rosewood,
and ebony, and camphor, and varnish trees
among precious woods; and turned up from
her depths half dozen Pennsylvania of
coal and iron, and twenty Nevadas of sill
yer, and fifty CALIFORNIA; of gold, and her
800, 100000 of people shall be evangelical
then the Lord will divide it up among the
good.
If my text be not deception, but an
eternal truth, then the time is coming
when all the farms will be owned by
Christian farmers, and all the commerce
controlled by Christian merchants, and all
the authority held by Christian officials,
and all the ships commanded by Christian
captains and all the universities under the
of Christian professors,
Christian Kings, Christian Presidents,
Christian Governors, Christian Mayors,
Christian Common Council. Yet, what a
securing out! What an upturning! what
demolition! what a resurrection, must
precede this new apportionmentI
| do mot underrate the enemy. julius
CGsar got his greatest victories by fully |
the vastness of his foes and |
prepared his men for theirgreatest triumph
~ saying: Tomorrow King Juba will be |
lere with 1000 horses, 100000 skirmishers |
ind 300 elephants" I do not underrate |
he vast forces of sin and death, but do you |
NOW who commands US! Jehovah-Jireh. |
And the reserve corps behind US are all
he armies OF Heaven and earth, with hur-
icane and thunderbolt. The good work of |
he worlds redemption is going on every
minute. Never so many noble men and
'lorious women on the side Of right as to-
ay. Never so many good people as now.
)iogenes has been spoken of as a wise
nan because he went with lantern at
oonday, saying he was looking for an
onest man. Ii he had turned his lantern
oward himself he might have discovered a
rank.
Honest men by the ten thousand
through the international series of Sun
ay-schooI lessons the next generation all
through Christendom are going to be wiser
han any generation since the world stood.
he kingdom is coming. God can do it.
10 housewife with a chamois cloth ever
olished silver teaspoon with more ease
han Christ will rub off from this world
ne tarnish and brighten it up till it glows
Ike Heaven, and then the glorious appor-
Comment, for my text is reinforced by a
core OF other texts, when it says Of
;hrlst: "He shall divide the spoil with the
trong."
But" you say, that is pleasant to
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